The MISSION: To shape the structure and enhance the function of future ecosystems in light of systemic stress -- climate and anthropogenic demand -- deep uncertainty, and eco-evolutionary emergence embedded into the ecohydro plexus as the integrative and productive value function. Not describing what we have but tracing and sculpting what we need and want: rewiring and generating possibilities.

The know-HOW: Information intelligence -- i.e., sensing, synthesis, prediction, and generation -- and value-driven engineering design of complex (socio-eco-technological) systems, by leveraging and encoding systemic risk into organized networks & flows for the morphing of collective assets. From data and analytics to structured tree-like information (tangible, percipient, and consequential) for optimal distributed decisions over space-time, encompassing multimedia communication and structured policy.

This involves the synthesis of collective dynamics (topology) and feedback (multiplex robust causality) into eco-morphic information/models across scales to trigger ecosystemic feedback, self-emergence, fitness and adaptation.

The KEYWORDS: predictive, emergent, and engineered networks; cyber-ecology/biocomplexity engineering; portfolio ecosystem design and strategy; pattern non-linear characterization and inference; systemic uncertainty; collective phenomena, information and decisions.

Desired background of students is highly desired in the following fields:

computational sciences/AI etc.

ecological and/or environmental informatics

hydroinformatics

complexity science/modeling/complex networks

systems modeling and engineering

structural engineering

hydraulics and hydrology

statistical physics (soft matter)

climate modeling

computational social sciences

computational design & communication

risk, uncertainty, and decision sciences

and related fields...

E-mail:matteo@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn